Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontagwas an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
liberty expansion possibility
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
photography photograph importance
To photograph is to confer importance.
truth lying opposites
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
matter population percent
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
photography pain photographer
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
space order happens
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
regret destiny men
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
literature muse modern
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
silence speech form
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
film good-films
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
nostalgic
But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures
nature gun people
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
vitality attention eagerness
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.